An institution unique to the house of representatives that reviews all bills (except revenue, budget, and appropriations bills) coming from a house committee before they go to the full house. the committee gives each bill a "true," which schedules the bill on the calendar, allots time for debate, and sometimes even specifies what kind of amendments may be offered.

Why would nations in latin america be part of a mostly arab cartel group known as opec? a) latin america refused to do business with countries that were not part of opec. eliminate b) natural resources such as oil are a major economic development for some latin american countries. c) latin america has a long history of distrust of the united states and fears a take-over of oil fields. d) latin american nations such as venezuela needed in getting natural resources to other parts of the world. 15